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When editing, asking to type two words in a box that does not exist

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Summary by AhmadF.Cheema

General info + issue with Captcha on third-party Wiki setup

Dr Reeves (talkcontribs)

I am a novice editor and have made written changes to a page without difficulty. However, I am not able to save changes involving references despite having done so successful with this software elsewhere.

For example, I attempted to insert, using the biomedical citation maker, a reference. A number was assigned, just as it was here when I pasted it in.[1]  However, when I selected save, I got a message saying

"Your edit includes new external links. To protect the wiki against automated spam, we kindly ask you to type the two words you see in the box below"

However the box below is the editing box and I see no two words or where to type them in.

Recommendations?

  1. Ebell MH, Siwek J, Weiss BD, Woolf SH, Susman J, Ewigman B et al. (2004). "Strength of recommendation taxonomy (SORT): a patient-centered approach to grading evidence in the medical literature.". J Am Board Fam Pract 17 (1): 59-67. PMID 15014055. 
AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

On which page exactly are you trying to make this edit? Can you provide a link?

Dr Reeves (talkcontribs)
AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

It is possible some extension in your browser is inadvertently blocking the box from showing up, maybe try making the edit in another browser?

You probably won't have to go through this issue repeatedly, as once you have made enough edits on Wikipedia, this spam check will automatically get disabled for you.

Dr Reeves (talkcontribs)

I think I may be confused. I did ok on Wikipedia. I am having difficulty with Wikidoc editing.

The page is https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Prolotherapy

The spam check is on Wikidocs, not Wikipedia and it happens in both explorer and chrome.

Still should go away with time? Perhaps I can put the references in written until the spam checker gets turned off.

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

As Wikidocs is unrelated to the Wikimedia Foundation, so your Wikipedia profile/edits are completely separate from Wikidocs edits.

Regarding Wikidocs, they are using Extension:ConfirmEdit, which forces "new" users to solve a Captcha before allowing them to post external links. Probably because of some configuration mistake on the part of the Wiki admins that captcha is not getting displayed.

A user is no longer considered "new" after he/she performs a particular number of edits and a particular number of days have passed since the account was created. Only admins would know what these particular numbers are. They are usually 5-15 edits and 2-3 days.

One solution is to make the admins aware of teh Captcha not getting shown issue, the second solution is to make some simple edits to increase your edit count and wait a few more days. The Captcha request should automatically get disabled for you.